VESPER FLIGHTS (HB)

From the bestselling author of H is for Hawk,Vesper Flights is a moving and frank, personal and political collection of essays about the human relationship to the natural world. Helen Macdonald brings together some of her best-loved writing along with new pieces covering a thrilling range of subjects. Subjects include; headaches, on catching swans, on hunting mushrooms, on twentieth-century spies, on numinous experiences and high-rise buildings; on nests and wild pigs and the tribulations of farming ostriches.